Aahlada Chennupati of The Artisan Variety: How To Successfully Ride The Emotional Highs & Lows Of Being An Entrepreneur

The five things that help me on this entrepreneurial ride are — a partner, a peer group of entrepreneurs, motivating and inspiring talks from business leaders, a group of girlfriends, and activities to distract my mind.

Being a founder, entrepreneur, or business owner can have many exciting and thrilling moments. But it is also punctuated with periods of doubt, slump, and anxiety. So how does one successfully and healthily ride the highs and lows of Entrepreneurship? In this series, called “How To Successfully Ride The Emotional Highs & Lows Of Being An Entrepreneur” we are talking to successful entrepreneurs who can share stories from their experience. I had the pleasure of interviewing Aahlada Chennupati.

Aahlada Chennupati is an entrepreneur and the founder of The Artisan Variety. She was born and raised in southern India where she spent a large part of her childhood with her grandmother who bought her local handcrafted gifts. After founding technology company ProductPlay, she looked at how artisan goods that were a part of her growing up were sold, she thought there was a…